The situation that arises near the end of a tournament in
which, usually, two tables remain and
a few players must bust out before the tables are combined for the final table,
all of the players at which
will finish in the money. Because some players might hope to guarantee a place
in the money by playing slowly,
hoping to outlast someone else who might go broke, the tournament director
sometimes stipulates that whichever
table finishes a hand first must wait for the other table before starting
the next deal, and the tables play hand for hand.